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Water and Power: Developing the Grand River Dam Authority, Part 1, 1935-1944

Description: Article describes the eight year project that led to the creation of the Grand River Dam Authority. Part 1 of Richard Lowitt's two-part article describes how the GRDA was campaigned for by Representative Wesley Disney and Senator Elmer Thomas of the Oklahoma Legislature. The resulting construction of the Pensacola Dam became a remedy for both flood control and creation of electric power.
Date: Summer 2009
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Oklahoma's Rising Star: The Election of Mike Monroney to the United States Senate

Description: Article describes in detail the rise of Mike Monroney, a young and progressive democrat from the House of Representatives in his bid for a seat on the United States Senate in 1950. Philip A. Grant, Jr. describes the events of the election race, particularly his competition with Senator Elmer Thomas.
Date: Summer 2002
Creator: Grant, Philip A., Jr.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Your Enemies May Attract Unwanted Friends": Gerald L. K. Smith, Patrick Hurley, and the 1948 New Mexico Senate Race

Description: Article explores Gerald L. K. Smith's intrusion into the 1948 United States Senate race in New Mexico, in which native Oklahoman Patrick J. Hurley was the Republican candidate. In the mid-twentieth century, Gerald L. K. Smith became well-known for the viciousness of his views, his bigotry, and his extremism.
Date: Autumn 2004
Creator: Buhite, Russell D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Where Angels Belong: The Oklahoma Antisuffrage Movement

Description: Article covers the history of the antisuffrage movement in Oklahoma and describes key figures and organizations against women's suffrage from the founding of the Oklahoma state constitution to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote on a national level.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Fugate, Tally D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Thurgood Marshall's "Broom Closet": The Structure of Segregation in McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents

Description: Article examines the circumstances that led up to the court case McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents and how lawyers Thurgood Marshall and Amos T. Hall fought for equal treatment of George McLaurin, an African-American student who was admitted to the University of Oklahoma College of Education in 1948, but physically separated from his classmates and made to enter his classroom through a separate door.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Lomazoff, Eric & Gregory, Bailie
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 60, Number 3, Fall 1982

Description: Notes and Documents section for Volume 60, Number 3, Fall 1982. It includes a recollection of the Constitutional Convention that met in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, by Stuart Bryan, who was appointed a page boy for the meeting. It also includes a document continuing the catalogue of microfilmed publications of the Archives and Manuscripts Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Date: Autumn 1982
Creator: Garrity, Richard
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Study of Oklahoma History during the Territorial Period: An Alternative Methodological Approach

Description: Article examines the history of Oklahoma Territory using the collective biography approach and its associated resources. Richard C. Rohrs compares and contrasts this method with other popular research methods, and provides other examples of collective biography.
Date: Summer 1982
Creator: Rohrs, Richard C.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"One Who Was Trusted": E. L. Mitchell of Western Oklahoma, Part Two

Description: Article describes the life and career of E. L. Mitchell, well-known newspaper editor, publisher, politician, and public speaker. In the second part of a two-part article, Paul F. Lambert provides details about the man's own views, particularly his Democratic political campaigns, and his impact on the community.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Lambert, Paul F.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Everyone Got His Two Cents Worth": Leslie Gordon Niblack and the Guthrie Daily Leader

Description: Article provides a historical portrait the last decade of Guthrie Daily Leader editor Leslie Gordon Niblack's career, as well as some of the headlines and contents of the newspaper itself. Niblack was a supporter of the Democratic Party and often featured political stories, but his newspaper also featured stories about natural disasters, local events, and advertisements.
Date: Winter 1982
Creator: Hall, Dennie
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Fifteen Men in Ermine: Judges of the United States Court for the Indian Territory, 1889-1907

Description: Article is a collective biography of the fifteen men of the Indian Territory court from 1889-1907. The author examines each judge's family history, education, politics, appointment to the bench, pattern of judicial decision making, and post judicial professional life.
Date: Summer 2008
Creator: Creel, Von Russell
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Enigma of Mike Monroney

Description: Article provides an overview of the political career of Almer Stillwell "Mike" Monroney, who served the people of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives and US Senate from 1939 until 1966. The author characterizes Monroney as a level-headed moderate attempting to continue his tenure in office amidst a shift to the conservative right in Oklahoma politics.
Date: Spring 2013
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Carl Albert: Little Giant of Native America

Description: Article describes the life and career of Carl Albert, Oklahoma Congressman for Oklahoma's Third Congressional District and eventual Speaker of the US House of Representatives. David W. Clark explores the ways Carl Albert assisted the American Indian community through beneficial policies supporting self-determination and opposition to policies terminating tribes.
Date: Autumn 2015
Creator: Clark, David W.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Building 3001: Home of the "Gooney Bird"

Description: Article describes the history of Building 3001 at Tinker Air Force Base, where Oklahoman workers produced thousands of C-47 military aircraft during World War II. The building was nicknamed the "Gooney Bird" after the Albatross, clumsy on the ground but beautiful in flight.
Date: Autumn 2013
Creator: Allin, Lawrence Carroll
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Class, Race, and Jack Walton's Mayoralty of Oklahoma City

Description: Article discusses the mayoral campaign and tenure of John C. "Jack" Walton as the mayor of Oklahoma City. Quincy R. Lehr explores the way Walton navigated a politically tumultuous time and gained the support of labor leaders and African American citizens in Oklahoma City before his controversial governorship.
Date: Summer 2011
Creator: Lehr, Quincy R.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Congressional Viewpoint Toward the Admission of Oklahoma as a State: 1902-1906

Description: Article discusses the various perspectives and dilemmas faced in Congress over the passage of Oklahoma's statehood during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. One of the main debates centered around the idea of Oklahoma entering the Union as a single state, or as two due to the separation of Oklahoma and Indian Territories.
Date: Autumn 1980
Creator: Ellinger, Charles Wayne
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Moses or Aaron?: William Jennings Bryan and Oklahoma Politics

Description: Article explores the political influence William Jennings Bryan had on the creation of Oklahoma's state constitution, and questions whether Bryan took the leading role of the biblical Moses in influencing decisions surrounding it, or the translator's role of Aaron to give the Oklahoma legislature's own agenda substance.
Date: Spring 2004
Creator: Adkison, Danny M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Klanspiracy" or Despotism?: The Rise and fall of Governor Jack Walton, featuring W. D. McBee

Description: Article details the life and political career of Oklahoma governor John C. "Jack" Walton. Brad L. Duren discusses the factors that led to his impeachment, including his frequent clashes with the Ku Klux Klan, despotic political actions, and conflict with his biggest critic on the Oklahoma state legislature, W. D. McBee.
Date: Winter 2002
Creator: Duren, Brad L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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